MIT
One of the issues with solar cells is the amount of sunlight they convert into electricity – and this conversion rate currently isn’t brilliant. But a team of physicists and engineers at MIT in the US have used computer simulations to boost the output from solar photovoltaic cells by as
MIT
A power source has been developed by an MIT student using the difference in pH between the trees and the ground to power a wireless network. The US Forest Service has been trialling this technology to track weather conditions, particularly during fire season. The service currently predicts and tracks fires
MIT
Greenbang is very much down with the whole microgeneration thing. If Greenbang had her way, all outdoors workers, from tree surgeons to traffic wardens, would have to wear personal solar panels contained in big Pat Butcher style earrings and then milked for the energy they created at the end of
cap and trade
Greenbang has something rarer than hen’s teeth, rocking horse poo and the Dalai Lama having a hissy fit because someone gave him sweet rather than salted popcorn when he went to see a Steven Seagal movie marathon combined. It’s a nice story about the European Union, and it’
coal
Like the ‘if a shark and a tiger were to have a fight, who would win?’ question, two mortal enemies – solar and coal – are locked in a life and death battle for the title the cheapest per watt energy. Who will win? Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets, pur-lease. North